Description
Item Description:In fact by Daniel Defoe.
The second part of Robinson Crusoe, the first being "The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe", first published in 1719.
In this state the verso of A4 is blank; the drop-head title on B1 begins "The Farthfr"; page 2, line 32 ends correctly "in my"; catchword on page 73: "Spa-"; page 108, line 16: "three old Halberds"; page 295 is correctly numbered; the recto of A4, line 2 reads: "Breaking" instead of "breaking"; the line endings on page 353 have slipped, with lines 25-30 giving incorrect line endings; a variant has page 295 numbered 215; a second has "any Dif-" at end of line 4 on the recto of A4.
Title printed within double rules.
Signatures: A⁴ B-2B⁸.
Title vignette (ship); head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Title of map: "A map of the world, on wch. is delineated the voyages of Robinson Cruso".
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy lacks the engraved folded map.
With 11 pages of advertisements for William Taylor at end.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Physical Description:8 unnumbered pages, 373 pages, 11 unnumbered pages pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : map (engraving) ; 21 cm (8vo)
Place of Publication:Great Britain -- England -- London, -- publication place.